Thousands of villagers in one of the poorest regions of Albania are to reclaim their livelihoods after a partnership between government agencies and the UNDP successfully cleared more than 12,000 anti-personnel mines from 16 million square metres of land.

In villages throughout Cambodia, local councilors and communities are telling officials how the government can better meet their basic needs, holding public meetings that are proving instrumental for government efforts to raise people’s standards of living.

As it fights to improve security in the country as a whole, the Government of Iraq is also advancing a series of gender-related rule-of-law programmes to enhance protections for women in particular, with the support of the UNDP.